Global supply chains enabling technological progress are collapsing due to geopolitical conflict, creating conditions for civilizational breakdown similar to the Bronze Age collapse. Professor Jiang predicts the next 9/11 will target U.S. financial infrastructure, not buildings, potentially wiping out bank accounts and traumatizing millions into self-destructive policy responses. Technological progress depends on specialization multiplied by globalization; wars and trade disruptions reverse this formula, causing technological regression and civilizational collapse.